8) The whole protective voodoo doll thing... pointless? Carrie could be infected, but she's not showing any symptoms. That is entirely where this made me have to question if this was just a pathogen or it had higher order motives. just before while dan was drinking in his office she told him that stoddart changed his mind and was not going to give them the go-ahead for the drilling. 2) There's an interview with Simon Donald here where he describes exactly what the lifecycle of the parasite, and explains that it was very deliberate to explore what happens when a parasite infects a host it didn't co-evolve with: Radio Times. Meanwhile again: Sheriff Dan Anderssen is (for reasons unexplained) obsessed with waitress Elena, whose real name is Esmerelda. Speculative, but the dog part seemed really played down. Dan’s mad dash to find the DCI comes too late, with the sheriff turning up just as the last lights are flickering in Morton’s eyes. However, human studies have not been able to show causation as they have all been observational studies. The Governor is on the mainland promoting the glacier hotel. Vincent's investigation leads him into a life-threatening situation, while Markus offers an alternative theory on what is plaguing Fortitude. Fortitude is a British horror psychological thriller television series created and written by Simon Donald. ... Christopher Eccleston Professor Stoddart. Dan is a Norwegian Police Service officer who has been stationed in Fortitude for eight years, where he serves as the Sheriff. A new series, many new faces. The apparent link of Prof Stoddart's death to scientist Billy Pettigrew's grizzly end is intriguing (since we know who shot the scientist) — there's clearly more to the polar bear attack than meets the eye. Surrounded by the savage beauty of the frozen landscape, Fortitude, a small town in the Arctic Circle, is one of the safest towns on earth. Dan and Hildur launch a desperate hunt for Jason as the need to locate the mammoth carcass escalates and Eric and Yuri go head to head out in the wilderness. 6) What was the point of Ronnie's wilderness story arc? Presumably got smuggled off the island (creating a risk of mainland infection in series 2). He then decides to go to Charlie and find out what he had found, why is it so important to shut down the hotel, that would save the town. Congressman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw at McP’s Pub on Saturday, November 7th from 12-4pm to do a book event for FORTITUDE: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage.Books can be preordered by calling the bookstore at 619-435-0070, or they may be purchased on site with debit/credit cards, and the Congressman will be signing them in outside area. It also seemed late, too late for a policeman to hassle someone, but if he was drunk or he didn't care, Dan seemed to be very anxious and was acting like he was covering it up. Pistols Glock 17. 4) Why did Stoddart cancel the glacier hotel, given that we now know it wasn't related to the mammoth and he didn't know about the mammoth graveyard? The timescale of a) Ronnie 'hatching' and b) the time it takes larvae to find Elena and infect her, compared with Jason or Shirley, is totally out of whack. We later find out why he’s the first on the scene of Pettigrew’s murder, mainly because it was Dan who cuffed Pettigrew to the electric mast and watched as a polar bear tore him limb from limb. Also it let them have a shot of what looked like gory zombie face Elena for the ads. What does he know about building ice structures? When watched, it really did appear Dan was already in the house. Behavioral Differences of Infected Hosts of article Toxoplasma gondii: The differences in behavior observed in infected hosts compared to non-infected individuals have been shown to be sex dependent. The only reason he doesn't leave Fortitude is because of his relationship with Natalie. Was the kid so lucky that blood only stayed on his body for his dad to wash up but never dripped off when he returned home? Because he thought there was new evidence, and it made sense associated with the readings from the glacier. I admit that I never thought Dan did it, and I know the show tried hard to mislead to offer twists (this was it's brilliance), but this key scene only left me confused :(. Home; About. i thought it was more to do with the need for a live host to plant the eggs into a suitable environment (the body). Everything was a fuck up by the writers but for #14 on the flamethrowers, they're near the Arctic and they use them to melt huge amounts of ice if there's ever a need. Why was Stoddart killed if the whole point was to have a live host? 7) What happened to the ivory on the boat? 1 Background 2 Season 1 3 Memorable Quotes 4 Gallery Hildur was born in Holstebro, Denmark on September 27th 1968. I know no one tougher than Dan Crenshaw, which is probably why his new book, FORTITUDE, is a must-read. Select Page. He gets there, no one is answering, he hears a glass shuttering up stairs, he lets himself in, and when he climbs the stares, he sees Vincent on top of Charlie, and Charlie appears dead. I expect we'll delve deeper into the environmental damage and a quarantine in the next season. What was the point of Ronnie's wilderness story arc? Yes but apart from that, this is gripping, but missing Dan in season 2, … The dog was acting like it had rabies practically, it would have been making frightful noises, perhaps even attacking defending his "food", or leaving more paw prints. Fortitude, says Congressman Crenshaw, in his new book of the same name, Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage. Thought there was only one doc and she is dead. If it was so obvious that Dan was there to learn what Charlie found why did Vincent mention Dan was already there and when you want the order of events, it did seem he was already there, and if Dan was already there, how could he not hear the Dog, nor have a gun drawn, or notice the body? Dan looks at her confused and says "found what?" A few observational studies on human subjects have also found the risk of traffic accidents to be significantly greater in infected persons than non-infected controls. Best I got. I am not able to re-watch the season to double check, so I am doing this from memory, but here is more of the issues: There was another relevant scene where Vincent tells someone that "Dan was there first". How did Eric suddenly lose his broken foot and was able to go one-on-one with a drunken Russian?